McKnight’s Senior Living November 15, 2023
A telehealth care team can offer a “slight comparative advantage” for older adults with end-stage Parkinson’s, including those in senior living communities, a new study shows.
The study, which evaluated the feasibility of improving palliative care for people living with Parkinson’s, tackled two separate concerns: training neurologists to better understand palliative care needs, and providing people with late-stage Parkinson’s with a telehealth care team.
“Persons with Parkinson’s have high palliative care needs that are underrecognized and undertreated in standard models of care,” the study authors write, adding that staffing shortages, or the lack of available palliative or Parkinson’s specialists in general, have created barriers to care.
Approximately one-fourth of all older adults with Parkinson’s live in assisted living communities or...
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